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Summary

This week, we dive deeper into the role of the fourth estate, as we discuss Network, the Oscar-winning film that was meant to be a wild satire at the time it was released, but ended up uncannily predicting the future. Some additional reading material: Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff's book about Network Directors' Guild of America post about Sidney Lumet at a 2003 screening of Network Vanity Fair article on the legacy of Network (which includes thoughts from Aaron Sorkin)

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Duration
59:33
Publishing date
2024-11-05 20:00
Link
https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_52_a457313e-689b-40f4-bb17-bbcd35061f30&uf=https%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fwestwingweekly
Contributors
  Joshua Malina & Hrishikesh Hirway
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Enclosures
https://dts.podtrac.com/redirect.mp3/dovetail.prxu.org/_/52/a457313e-689b-40f4-bb17-bbcd35061f30/TWWWPFF_-_Network.mp3
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This week, we dive deeper into the role of the fourth estate, as we discuss Network, the Oscar-winning film that was meant to be a wild satire at the time it was released, but ended up uncannily predicting the future.

Some additional reading material:

Mad As Hell, Dave Itzkoff's book about Network

Directors' Guild of America post about Sidney Lumet at a 2003 screening of Network

Vanity Fair article on the legacy of Network (which includes thoughts from Aaron Sorkin)